Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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Standard Name: Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner,,, Countess of
Birth Name: Margaret Power
Married Name: Margaret Farmer
Self-constructed Name: Marguerite Gardiner
Indexed Name: Marguerite Gardiner
Married Name: Marguerite Gardiner
Titled: Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Pseudonym: The Author of the Magic Lantern
Pseudonym: The Author of Sketches and Fragments
Used Form: Marguerite, Lady Blessington
wrote non-fiction, poetry, and novels, many of them in the silver-fork category. Although she was a popular novelist in her day, well reviewed and respected by a number of other writers, her account of her conversations with
remains the work for which she is remembered. Other works combine memoir with travel writing. In accounts of the literary milieu she is remembered for her editorship of annuals in the 1830s and 1840s and as a brilliant literary hostess.
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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. Conversations of Lord Byron. Richard Bentley, 1834.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. Conversations of Lord Byron. J. C. Hotten, 1869.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. Conversations of Lord Byron. Editor Lovell, Ernest J., Princeton University Press, 1969.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, and Marguerite A. Power. Country Quarters. W. Shoberl, 1850.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. Desultory Thoughts and Reflections. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, and Edward Thomas Parris. Gems of Beauty. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1836.
L. E. L., and Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, editors. Heath’s Book of Beauty. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, editor. Heath’s Book of Beauty. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, 1969, pp. 3-114.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. Journal of a Tour through the Netherlands to Paris, in 1821. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822.
Hemphill, Barbara. Lionel Deerhurst; or, Fashionable Life under the Regency. Editor Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, Richard Bentley, 1846.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. Marmaduke Herbert; or, The Fatal Error. Richard Bentley, 1847.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. Meredith. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. Rambles in Waltham Forest. Privately Printed by J. L. Cox, 1827.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. Sketches and Fragments. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. Strathern; or, Life at Home and Abroad. H. Colburn, 1845.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, and Alfred Edward Chalon. The Belle of a Season. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1840.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, and Edmund Thomas Parris. The Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1836.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. The Confessions of an Elderly Lady. Baudry, 1838.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, and Edmund Thomas Parris. The Confessions of an Elderly Lady. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. The Governess. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. The Idler in France. H. Colburn, 1841, http://U of T.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. The Idler in Italy. H. Colburn, 1839.
Reynolds, Frederic Mansel et al., editors. The Keepsake. Hurst, Chance; R. Jennings.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. The Lottery of Life. H. Colburn, 1842.